China Gourmet 福州风味小吃

I really want to say I liked this place because of the reviews but this was unfortunately not for my tastebud. The mix noodle tasted mushy and the other noodle dishes were bland and one of the dumplings had a sour taste. The service was pretty bad. We asked for water and the server gave a group of 11 just ONE cup of water. Seems to be many workers but just 1 server. We ended up getting our own water, it was in a cooler (similar to the big Gatorade jugs) This restaurant was a little hard to find since the door was hidden behind the pole. It looked clean but don’t let that fool you. The tables were really sticky, luckily I had wet wipes handy to wipe it down a little. While I was getting my food and spinning the lazy Suzy a spider came crawling out from underneath!

This place serves authentic food of Fuzhou, China. Most food are small tasty dishes. However you can also order few larger dishes off the menu. The cost is very reasonable.

Want some good food early in the morning, found this place. It was 9am and I am the first one. Got the oyster cake, fried dumplings, a side soup, then a beef offals noodle soup. Oyster cake is awesome and beef offals soup is very good if you are into that. Next time will try the stewed pot. It would take 40 minutes to cook so If you want it, just know you will need to wait that long, but I haven’t found any place doing these kinds of stewed pot. Update: I got a lamb soup, oyster cakes, leek&pork dumplings, pork belly with bamboo shoots. These are very good but they are acquired taste. The lamb soup is really good but it had the Chinese medicine taste so it may not for everyone. Same as the pork & bamboo shoots. But the oyster cakes are really good. I order extra to take it to go. The leek dumplings fillings are good but the wrapper is thick so I don’t like it as much. But I had been here 3 times in the last couple weeks. When I head to Chinatown, I keep thinking about these oyster cakes and the soup and tends to head to this place… Update: Came back to day since I want some soup and the herbal soup is excellent. It didn’t take long since I was there at 9am and may be they make the process faster than before. Only about 10 minutes wait for the soup. The fish ball soup, fried oyster cake and the taro cake are also good. I just feel like I am back in Asia with these foods.

No-frills restaurant offering authentic Fuzhou cuisine at reasonable prices. Clean dining room, great food and wonderful customer service. Our favorites were the flat meat wontons, yanwan wontons, peanut noodles, fried oyster cake, and the fresh meat lantern balls. Will definitely be back!

Our family met here for weekend reunion. We ordered 6 dishes. Most dishes came with small portions but delicious and we finished them all.